Also, I am a confessed and unrepentant Wodehouse addict, and this is simply one of his most addictive doses. But when it popped up in Audible’s First-In-A-Series Sale, I caved-all for the sheer pleasure of being able to play it through our Echo for the whole family to revel in.

I’d purchased this one years ago from another audiobook company which will remain nameless. How Good Is It? I Bought It Twice, That’s How Good Overall, if you're thinking of an audio version of Something Fresh, I recommend going with the Jonathan Cecil version instead of this one - Cecil just seems better at interpreting Wodehouse on a consistent basis. Most of Wodehouse's hilarity lies in knowing just how to say a line like 'Percy's always been a bit of a nut - I say, what?' for maximum effect, and Davidson doesn't seem to have the knack. More problematically - and again, I realize this is sometimes a matter of personal taste - Davidson seems to miss jokes all the time. All the men under 30 sound like fruity idiots all the women sound like airheads (quite literally) all the older men sound uniformly gruff and the various American accents are neither accurate nor consistent. It's fine when he uses a very effete, almost effeminate voice for Bertie Wooster (who doesn't appear here), but he doesn't have a whole lot of range. Something Fresh isn't a bad novel - though with less laugh-a-minute potential than some of the other Blandings-series stories - but Frederick Davidson's very affected vocal style isn't really suited to longer novels like this, with so many different characters. And this particular audiobook isn't one of the best.

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Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse